#ams2015

[personalintelligence]

What a great four days! I finally got to meet @atthefloodgates as she showed me around Louisville and we caught up. As she said in her own post, it’s amazing how meeting someone you’ve known for 3+ years online can really be more like catching up with an old friend than anything else.

The reason why I was in Louisville was for the American Musicological Society Annual Conference. Not only did I finally get to have the needed heart to heart with my old mentor about where to go from here in terms of finally getting back on the academic track and applying for grad schools, but I got to meet @gracefulflatulence in what seemed like completely random, perfect timing.

I went from thinking I would never meet a Tumblr friend to meeting two in one weekend (one planned, one not). I am leaving this weekend very much refreshed, enlightened, and happy. A much needed shift in the crazy of my current life path!

[andisyareef]

Ini Menara Masjid Kampung Kling, salah satu masjid tua d kampung cina Melaka. Letaknya tidak lbih dri 200 meter dengn kelenteng umat Konghucu, dan tentu saja masih satu kompleks dgn Christ Church Melaka (aka. bangunan merah). Konon katanya kampung ini adalah role model dari kerukunan ummat beragama di Melaka. Masjidnya sdah tua tapi terlihat sangat terawat dengan baik dan sejuk sekali di dalamnya, and FYI Melaka is so hot, so pas masuk masjid ini pasti betah berlama2 😊 #melaka #malaysia #Likeforlike #instamood #instapict #AMS2015 #masjid #chinatown #kampungkling (at Melaka, Malaysia)

[musicandphilosophy]

CFP: Music and Philosophies of Race and Ethnicity

CFP: Music and Philosophies of Race and Ethnicity

AMS Music and Philosophy Study Group

Louisville, 2015

How can philosophical approaches to music tackle the topics of race and ethnicity? And how might philosophical approaches to race respond to the specificity of musical experience? In this call for papers, the AMS Music and Philosophy Study Group seeks proposals that address music through philosophical accounts of race and critical race theory, as well as philosophical approaches to music that are oriented towards the question of race. Approaches might query the moral status of the concept of race, the problem of racism, or the dynamics of racial identity and its linkages with ethnicity, while relating them to questions specific to music: for example, the contested boundaries of intellectual property, epistemologies of literate and vernacular modes of reproduction, the affective dimensions of musical experience, and the ways various ontologies of music are defined by racial formations. We hope to represent a range of musical situations: in cities and megacities, rural and peripheral, sacred and secular, colonial and postcolonial, as well as among diasporic groups.

The MPSG will hold two linked sessions at this year's AMS. Our daytime business meeting will host papers devoted to the general topic of Music and Philosophies of Race and Ethnicity. For the evening session, we would like to program a panel of three proposed papers and two invited speakers for a discussion that is more narrowly focused on the work of W.E.B. Du Bois. Thus, we welcome proposals engaged with Du Bois’ musical thought, as well as applications and critical responses to his philosophy that are placed in dialogue with musical practices.

The sessions will feature papers of eight to ten minutes each, and will be oriented towards discussion. Those interested should send a proposal of 250 words (maximum) to the following email address: philosophymusic[at]gmail[dot]com.

The deadline for submissions is midnight E.S.T. on Monday, May 18, 2015.